Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is one thing all countries, including our own, seem to have in common -the sense of being caught in history and frustrated by it. And in this, perhaps, lies Christianity's special opportunity; for Christianity is deeply concerned with the historical process...
...first prerequisite for a successful honor system is complete and constant support by the student body. A majority of Harvard undergraduates only want to get exams over with, and the process of doing this is quite immaterial. The kind of faith needed, in what to many is a trivial idea, is only possible in a smaller, more homogeneous student group. That is why many of the New England women's colleges can dispense with proctors. Of the men's colleges in which the undergraduate is put on his honor, Virginia is a closely-knit state college, while Princeton and Williams...
...removal of decorative railings and pinnacles, necessitated after discovery of dangerous weaknesses in 1945, precipitated a storm of local comment which reached its highest pitch when one irate alumnus described the process as comparable to "drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa...
...Hand. On the whole, the election returns indicated that General MacArthur was right last month when he said: "The process of democratization . . . takes years." But there were some signs of progress. At Makuwari, farmers and fishermen (who returned the local bosses to power) noticed at least one change. "Once officials were stiff-necked and paid no attention to ordinary people," they said. "Now they come to us and ask us as a favor to vote for them." Commented a U.S. official: "Isn't that the beginning? How else does an awareness of self-government occur...
...armies of Russian extras either besieging a Tartar castle with catapults or recovering Stalingrad with bazookas. Sergei Eisenstein, who introduced wartime American audiences to Russian military history with "Alexander Nevsky" and "Suvarov," has again probed into his country's past to come up with "Ivan The Terrible" in the process of fashioning the Duchy of Moscow into all the Russias...